Quotes about Choice
Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Joshua 24:15.
— Ellen White
Thus Esau despised his birthright." In disposing of it he felt a sense of relief. Now his way was unobstructed; he could do as he liked. For this wild pleasure, miscalled freedom, how many are still selling their birthright to an inheritance.
— Ellen White
Though the people of Gergesa had not received Jesus, He did not leave them to the darkness they had chosen. When they bade Him depart from them, they had not heard His words. They were ignorant of that which they were rejecting. Therefore He again sent the light to them, and by those to whom they would not refuse to listen.
— Ellen White
Every soul has a heaven to win, and a hell to shun.
— Ellen White
How do souls become Christ's sheep? By choosing to receive Him. But Christ had first chosen them.
— Ellen White
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
— Emily Bronte
When my friend Matilda lay dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, she said that she had been prepared all of her life to choose between good and evil. What no one had prepared her for, she lamented, was to choose between the good, the better, and the best—and yet this capacity turned out to be the one she most needed as she watched the sands of her life run out.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The meaning we give to what happens in our lives is our final, inviolable freedom.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.
— Henry B. Eyring
Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Abortion is not health care. A woman has a right to her body, but that is not her body. What about the baby?
— Alveda King